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Court Accidentally Airs the Hoff's Dirty Laundry

Here's the thing about the public record. It's just so…public.

A mere day after lawyers representing David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach said the warring exes were close to reaching an agreement that would keep the actor's financial status under wraps, documents filed Wednesday containing all sorts of unsavory details were mistakenly entered into the public record. 

In his latest court filing, Hasselhoff claims that Bach was "intoxicated or on drugs" at their daughter's Sweet 16 party in May, allowed a friend to give their daughter alcohol and then tested positive for cocaine in August. Bach has also accused him repeatedly, in front of their children, of having an affair, focusing in particular on an alleged dalliance with the family's nanny, the former Baywatch star stated.  

"[Bach] unfairly harbors an irrational obsession and jealous rage toward our nanny and persists in accusing her of wanting to replace [Bach] as my wife and [Bach] as the mother of our two children," Hasselhoff stated in court documents obtained by E! News.  

A lab report also submitted Wednesday shows that Bach did have a positive drug test in late August.  

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas ruled earlier this year that all divorce proceedings pertaining to the couple's two daughters, Taylor and Hayley, be removed from the public record. However, parts of Wednesday's filing were inadvertently unsealed. 

Bach's lawyer, Susan Wiesner, had no comment on the content of the filing but stated that this public airing of the couple's dirty laundry was "an intentional effort on [Hasselhoff's] part to besmirch [Bach's] character and her reputation. She's a good mother, and she wants to protect her children. I have no idea how these documents became public.” 

But Hasselhoff's attorney, Melvin Goldsman, told People that they were just as outraged. "This was a horrible mistake on behalf of the court," he said. "David would never intentionally release anything that would be hurtful to his children. He's quite disturbed about this." 

Hasselhoff went on to accuse his estranged wife of repeatedly harassing him by phone after the aforementioned birthday party (despite the existence of a restraining order he obtained in June limiting her to one call a day), calling him "a drunk" and accusing him of chronic infidelity.

(Bach was also granted a keep-away order against Hasselhoff in March, requiring him to stay 100 feet away from her unless he was around to be with their kids.) 

"Mrs. Hasselhoff could respond to each and every allegation with a litany of allegations that have been filed with the court regarding Mr. Hasselhoff's alcohol problems and his phone calls, etc.," Wiesner said, "but she doesn't want to engage in the media in order to protect the children." 

And just so long as she isn't engaging the media, Bach herself told TMZ.com: "I haven't done coke." She said that Hasselhoff had the drug tests performed by a private lab selected by him. 

Bach was hitched to Mr. Knight Rider for more than 16 years. He filed for divorce in January, citing irreconcilable differences; she counter-filed the next day. In the ensuing months she proceeded to accuse him of brutalizing her in various ways, while he accused her of being a drug addict in need of professional help. 

Somehow, somewhere, they amicably agreed to share custody of their daughters. 

Also filed Wednesday was a transcript of a phone conversation that took place between the sparring ex-partners in September (at one point Hasselhoff tells Bach he's recording her), in which Bach calls Hasselhoff "psycho" and "a joke," rails about his supposed porn-watching habits and refers to him breaking her nose—which she has alleged in previously filed documents that he did.  

"I don't believe it was intentionally misfiled," Goldsman said, referring to all the info that wound up in the spotlight today. "It's a mistake that happens, based on the volume of work the court receives." 

Wiesner said that she would return to court Friday to unseal all of her previous filings, as well, so that a more balanced picture could be painted.  

"We don't want to have to go there because of the children," she said, "but I don't want their daughters to have a lopsided view of their parents."     

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